Identifier: pacificservicema1627paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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pletion ofthe Colgate plant, there came the develop-ment of what has proven probably the great-est public value in electric transmission, thecombining of these plants and operation asa single unit. This was the first step ininterconnection of power in which Cali-fornia led and is still leading the world. At this time another event took placewhich marked the future for California.There was the demand for hydro-electricpower with communities lining the shoresof San Francisco Bay. Transmitting powerfor 160 miles at a necessarily increased andundreamed-of potential voltage, and cross-ing the straights of Carquinez to conveypower to Oakland, was a daring thought.But the men who had dared in the firstpioneering, dared in this and the lines andcrossing still stand as monuments to theirdaring. It was then that the industrial develop-ment of Oakland started. It was then thather future was enlarged. The resource sogreatly needed was added to those alreadypossessed, thus making for an industrial
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Aeroplane view of Columbia Steel Companys plant at Pittsburg, Contra Costa County. i Pacific Service Magazine 321 locality with prospects forillimitable expansion. The means for cheap,abundant power had beenprovided. What has taken placein the twenty-six yearsthat followed can be pic-tured. Industries smallerat first, then as the factsregarding the communitybecame more widelyknown, great national in-stitutions came. Intercon-nection with its resultant advantages pro-vided the necessary power at economicalprice and in dependable service whereverand whenever the nature or requirementsof the manufacturer demanded. Sites werepractical over an extraordinary range ofterritory in the East Bay. At this day overthe entire territory from Antioch to Liver-more industries are established and servedby an interconnected system which nowcovers thirty-eight counties in Central Cali-fornia. Industry has been decentralized andrural homes have been made to offer all thecomforts of urban life, to say not

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